Brussels this Christmas is overrun with thousands of golden origami: here is the work of Charles Kaisin

For this Christmas, the center of Brussels has been invaded by ... thousands of origami. It is an installation by Belgian designer Charles Kaisin, promoted by the Société des Galeries Royales Saint-Hubert in collaboration with the City of Brussels: the origami path, in particular, illuminates the Galeries Royales Saint-Hubert and the adjoining streets to end in the lobby of the Hotel Amigo, a few steps from the famous Manneken-Pis. Several installations: the most impressive is surely Origamis for Life, located in the Galerie du Roi: thirty thousand colorful origami, made during the first lockdown by citizens who volunteered to help Kaisin, form doves that occupy the entire gallery.

Then again, in the Galerie de la Reine, another installation, Golden Tree, shapes a forty-meter-long fir tree composed of twenty thousand golden origami. Again, in the Galerie des Princes, the Golden Bird installation brings together two thousand golden origami and is meant to be an ode to freedom of thought and expression. Garlands of origami decorate the streets of Brussels all the way to Hotel Amigo, where a 3.50-meter-high Christmas tree, also made entirely of golden origami, closes the itinerary among Kaisin’s paper works.

The project also has solidarity purposes: in fact, the initiative’s partners have pledged to raise funds for Fondation Érasme, which operates in the Brussels hospital of the same name, in order to help the fight against Covid-19. This is not the first time that Kaisin has created works with origami: he had already wallpapered the foyer of the Liège theater with similar works in 2016, and before arriving at the Galeries Royales, the Belgian designer’s paper creations had made their way to the Centre Kanal Pompidou and the Cathedral of Saints Michael and Gudula in Brussels. Now, the galleries’ golden origami will remain on view until February.

Brussels this Christmas is overrun with thousands of golden origami: here is the work of Charles Kaisin

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